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OET-RV by cross-referenced section JOS 1:1

JOS 1:1–1:9 ©

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Yahweh encourages Yehoshua

Jos 1:1–9

1After the death of Yahweh’s servant Mosheh (Moses), Yahweh spoke to Mosheh’s servant Yehoshua (Joshua) (the son of Nun), saying, 2“Now that my servant Mosheh is dead, you and all these people should pack up and cross over this River Yordan to go to the land that I am about to give to them—to Yisra’el’s descendants. 3I’ll give you all every place that the soles of your feet tread on, just like I told Mosheh.[ref] 4Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to the Lebanon mountains in the north, and from the large Euphrates River in the east, and right to the Mediterranean sea in the west, including all of the Hittites’ land. 5No man will be able to challenge your leadership as long as you live—I’ll be with you just as I was with Mosheh—I won’t fail you or abandon you.[ref] 6Be strong and be courageous, for you yourself will lead these people to inherit the land that I promised their ancestors that I’d give to them.[ref] 7Just be strong and very courageous—making sure that you obey everything that my servant Mosheh instructed you. Don’t turn away to the right or to the left from it, so that you’ll be wise in every situation that you end up in. 8That book of the law must always be on your lips and you should meditate on it day and night, so that you’ll be careful to follow everything that’s written in it, because then you’ll make your ways prosperous and then you’ll be wise. 9Didn’t I order you to be strong and courageous? Don’t tremble or be discouraged because your god Yahweh will be with you wherever you go.”


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Deu 11:24-25:

24Every place that your feet step on will become yours: from the southern desert to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.[ref] 25No one will be able to resist you all. Your god Yahweh will make those peoples in that land terrified of you, just as he promised he would.


11:24-25: Josh 1:3-5.

Deu 31:6,8:

6Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of those people, because it’s your god Yahweh who’ll go with you—he won’t leave you or abandon you.

8Yahweh will go ahead of you and he’ll be with you. He won’t fail or abandon you—you mustn’t be afraid or concerned.[ref]

31:8: Josh 1:5; Heb 13:5.

Heb 13:5:

5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said:[ref]

“I’ll never leave you;

Indeed I’ll never abandon you.”


13:5: Deu 31:6,8; Jam 1:5.

Deu 31:6-7,23:

6Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of those people, because it’s your god Yahweh who’ll go with you—he won’t leave you or abandon you.

7Then Mosheh called Yehoshua and told him in front of all Yisrael, “Be strong and courageous, because you’ll go with these people into the land that Yahweh had promised to their ancestors to give to them, and you’ll enable them to take it as their inheritance. 8Yahweh will go ahead of you and he’ll be with you. He won’t fail or abandon you—you mustn’t be afraid or concerned.[ref]

9Then Mosheh wrote these instructions down and gave the scroll to the Israeli elders and to the priests (Levi’s descendants) who carry the box containing Yahweh’s agreement. 10Then Mosheh instructed them: Every seven years at the time for cancelling all debts during the Celebration in Huts,[ref] 11when all Yisrael must go and stand in front of your god Yahweh in the place that he will choose, you must read these instructions aloud to all Yisrael. 12Assemble the people (men, women, children, and any foreigners that live in your country) so that they can listen and learn, and honour and respect your god Yahweh, and keep following all these instructions. 13Then their descendants who won’t have heard this yet, can hear them and learn to honour and respect your god Yahweh during all the years that you all live in the land that you are crossing the Yarden river in order to take possession of it.

14Then Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses), “Listen, you’ll soon die. Call Yehoshua (Joshua) present yourselves in the sacred tent, then I’ll give him his instructions.”

So Mosheh and Yehoshua went to the sacred tent. 15Yahweh appeared to them there in a pillar of cloud that stood over the tent door.

16Then Yahweh said to Mosheh, “Listen, you’ll soon go to join your ancestors, and these people will turn and prostitute themselves to the strange gods of the land that they’ll be going to. This nation will abandon me and break the agreement that I’ve made with it. 17When that happens, my rage will burn against them, and I’ll abandom them and distance myself from them. They’ll be devoured by other kingdoms, and many disasters and troubles will hit them. Then they’ll say at that time, ‘Didn’t these disasters come to us because our God is no longer here amongst us?’ 18Yes, I’ll definitely stay away on that day because of all the evil that they will have done when they turned to other gods. 19So now, write down this song and teach it to the Israelis. Make them memorise it so that it can become a witness for me against them. 20When I bring them to the land that I promised to their ancestors, flowing with milk and honey, and they eat well and become satisfied and fat, then they’ll turn to other gods and they’ll serve them, and they’ll despise me and break our agreement. 21Then in the future when many evils and troubles hit the country, this song will testify to it as a witness (because it won’t be forgotten by their descendants). Because I know their intent today, even before I’ve taken them into the land that I promised.”

22So Mosheh wrote down the song that day and taught it to the Israelis.

23Then he instructed Nun’s son Yehoshua (Joshua), “Be strong and courageous; because you’ll be the one to take the Israelis into the land that I promised them, and I’ll be with you.”[ref]


31:8: Josh 1:5; Heb 13:5.

31:10: a Deu 15:1-2; b Deu 16:13-15.

31:23: Num 27:23; Jam 1:6.